Out of professional coutesy, NASA does not have these press conferences until the embargo is lifted which coincides with the day of publication in a peer reviewed journal. In this case it is the January 16, 2009 Science Express.

They seemed to have more to say on the topic, but those comments would be embargoed until the next publication. So stay tuned to NASA for future press releases upon such publication.

The present timing is an accident of publication time rather than some conspiracy attempt to garner interest at this time. Most of the infromation from the conference was already available from Mumma's DPS 40 talk a couple months ago. Indeed it was a bit surprising that comments from the DPS talk with respect to the MRO's HiRise imaging were left out of this press release. Perhaps this will be part of a future press release because it may be associated with another upcoming paper.